PAF received MAA-1A Piranha 1 in june 2010 and now looking for MAA-1B Piranha 2

[ANG]

Hi, does it make sense to have so many different short range AAMs? The PAF has AIM-9 sidewinders, Matra R550s, PL-5E, PL-9, now MAA-1A Piranha, and potentially MMA-1B and Denel Darters... The cost and logistics of maintaining such a diverse inventory would be high. Take care.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Well it would be wonderful to fly out with mixed batch as the Electronic warfare would block may be 1 of the items which will still give you options to knock the enemy down with other variants in your inventory

Also it makes it harder for enemy to counter meassure if they don't know what you are carrying a machine gun or a rifle or a sniper rifle

I think our Air Force is going for - element of suprise with this one

Also its good to learn lesson from Egypt after their war time backstabbing by their supplier with out naming names they started to precure weapons from different sources and never depending on just one supplier and for us its similar strategy

 

[graphican]

Hi, does it make sense to have so many different short range AAMs? The PAF has AIM-9 sidewinders, Matra R550s, PL-5E, PL-9, now MAA-1A Piranha, and potentially MMA-1B and Denel Darters... The cost and logistics of maintaining such a diverse inventory would be high. Take care.

Good thing about having such variety is to make your enemy think few times before entering into our Air-Space. They would never know what missile they are going to face from one set of fighters and what from the other. Also variation of missiles will help us form multiple levels of defence, the border, the outer, the central, the frontal and inner. My 2$.

 

[Mani2020]

Hi, does it make sense to have so many different short range AAMs? The PAF has AIM-9 sidewinders, Matra R550s, PL-5E, PL-9, now MAA-1A Piranha, and potentially MMA-1B and Denel Darters... The cost and logistics of maintaining such a diverse inventory would be high. Take care.

Matra are used on our mirages and Aim-9 on our f-16's .while PL-5E,PL-9,MAA-1A will be used on our current jf-17's and MAA-1B and A-Darter on our block2 jf-17's .PAF will have a large fleet of jf-17's so going for AAM from different sources seems wise option because you simply can't load your 250 jf-17's with same kind of missiles ,can you?

 

[monitor]

so with the induction of mar-1 pakistan has replace chineese short range missile.
nice going jf-17 and pakistan .

 

[Mani2020]

so with the induction of mar-1 pakistan has replace chineese short range missile.
nice going jf-17 and pakistan .

No,you are totaly confusing MAR-1 with MAA-1Piranha .

MAR-1 is an anti radiation missile and Pakistan has no anti-radiation missile of Chinese origin so there is nothing like MAR-1 replacing Chinese counterparts

 

[Kompromat]

MAA-1A if i am not wrong is an Off boresight infrared guided missile and can be integrated with HMD/S.

 

[Mani2020]

MAA-1A if i am not wrong is an Off boresight infrared guided missile and can be integrated with HMD/S.

In case of MAA-1A the acquisition target may be in standalone mode or with the missile "appointed" by the radar, HUD or crosshairs on the helmet (which means some capacity off-boresight ")The missile can pull upto g-load of 45 g's

MAA-1A i said to be similar like Python 3 while MAA-1B is similar to Python 4


While the MAA-1B has full capacity off-boresight about 90 degree and has ~50% more range

 

[Sunny4pak]

Dear All,
Mar-1 is already in service and in use with JF-17 as i have seen two pics (farnbourough or Zhui Air Show) of JFT and i have these pics in my PC i don't know how to upload on this forum,
On that misile it is clearly written Mar-1...............

May be some senior members show something

Regards,

Sunny

 

[SEAL]

Whats the range of MAA-1A?

 

[Mani2020]

Whats the range of MAA-1A?

Reported range is 8-10km for MAA-1A WHILE IN CASE OF MAA-1B it is said to have 50% more range then the previous one so the range for MAA-1B would be somewhere around 16-20km

 

[farhan_9909]

it would be better if we have selected the A darter or Iris-T

 

[Mani2020]

it would be better if we have selected the A darter or Iris-T

If you would have red the first page you have red my post where i said that PAF is also looking for A-Darter and most probably will be the biggest customer of A-Darter.
And i quoted pshamim sb there.

You can go back to page 1 and read my post.I hope it will help you

 

[monitor]

it would be better if we have selected the A darter or Iris-T

A darter is on pakistan thought but iris-t not yet i think .
Even targets behind the launching aircraft can be destroyed successfully by IRIS-T. do maa-1a piranha have this kind of ability ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS-T

 

[monitor]